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Frasse 
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trilogy58
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Posted: May 16 2007 at 11:07 |
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Close To The Edge just a few days after it was released. I was a sophomore in HS. That album, specifically And You And I, changed my musical tastes forever.
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Music is serious business. Enjoy it!
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puma
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Joined: April 15 2007
Location: Boston, MA
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Posted: May 16 2007 at 11:04 |
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I remember buying Yes's Relayer album solely based on the album cover, with only the knowledge that I liked Long Distance Runaround, Roundabout, and Your Move/I've Seen All Good People. Best decision I'd made in a long time.
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Rutgers Joe
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Posted: May 16 2007 at 11:01 |
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The original (and very creepy) cover of THE STEVE HOWE ALBUM...hint...look in the water... 
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Sean Trane
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Prog Folk
Joined: April 29 2004
Location: Heart of Europe
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Posted: May 16 2007 at 10:52 |
 andu wrote:
Live at Pompeii did it for me. |
That's definitely one of them, along with Crime Of The Century, Wish You Were Here and Stand Up
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let's just stay above the moral melee
prefer the sink to the gutter
keep our sand-castle virtues
content to be a doer
as well as a thinker,
prefer lifting our pen
rather than un-sheath our sword
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kazansky
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Location: Indonesia
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Posted: May 16 2007 at 10:33 |
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Dream Theater - Train of Thought
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The devil we blame our atrocities on is really just each one of us.
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Lofcaudio
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Location: United States
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Posted: May 16 2007 at 10:09 |
Neal Morse's Testimony. Obviously, I'm pretty new to prog.
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The Acolyte
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Joined: January 15 2007
Location: Colombia
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Posted: May 16 2007 at 09:37 |
I got to know about progressive rock through a magazine collection called "La Historia del Rock" (Rock's History), it has a issue called "Rock Progresivo" where I read about artists such as Can, Faust, ELP, King Crimson, Camel, VdGG, Yes among others...that readings were very interesting and one day I found a cd at my local cd store, it was King Crimson's In the Wake of Poseidon...just 10 seconds of Pictures of a City and I was hooked!  ...and so the story goes...
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"…but would I leave you in this moment of your trial?"
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Single Coil
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Posted: May 16 2007 at 09:32 |
I went to something called a "used record store"  and bought Thick as a Brick, Fragile, and Court of the the Crimson King - for $1 each ! They were all horribly scratched. I probably traded in some Cheap Trick and Black Sabbath in order to get the $3.
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If it's worth playing, it's worth playing loud!
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Yontar
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Posted: May 16 2007 at 09:27 |
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cynic- focus, this opened up a lot of doors for a metalhead like me. Alot of fusion jazz and rush helped to really encourage me in my musical expansion.
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basically in a few words, prog metal owns!
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Mandrakeroot
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Italian Prog Specialist
Joined: March 01 2006
Location: San Foca, Friűl
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Posted: May 16 2007 at 08:48 |
It is very difficult... But I think this: 
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Roskisdyykkari
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Joined: February 10 2007
Location: Finland
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Posted: May 16 2007 at 08:44 |
Jethro Tull - Stand Up
I found the vinyl from my parents' old drawer. Even though I kind of hated Jethro Tull before I heard that album, I wanted to give it a try because I wanted to like progressive music  . Luckily, after I heard that album I discovered the greatness of Jethro Tull and other prog.
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And the sand-castle virtues are all swept away
in the tidal destruction the moral melee.
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Shakespeare
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Posted: May 16 2007 at 08:21 |
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I was raised listening to Genesis, ELP, Gentle Giant, and Yes, so I
just always had that sense of knowing. I don't remember the first album
or song in particular that turned me upside down.
But I think the one big song was Supper's Ready. When I was young
(we're talking 7 or 8), I was in the car with a friend, and showing it
to him. I wanted him to hear the part where The Gabe does all the funny
voices (I now know it as Willow Farm) and the other guy was just
totally uninterested. Around that time, I took a burnt disc of some
prog to my day care and showed the kids there Proclamation by Gentle
Giant, and they were actually offended and got angry at me for putting
that crap on. All they wanted to hear was Aaron Carter, and I wanted to
hear my "REDICULOUSLY LONG" 6 minute song.
Ok, so those two anecdotes weren't directly related, but whatever.
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erik neuteboom
Prog Reviewer
Joined: July 27 2005
Location: Netherlands
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Posted: May 16 2007 at 08:17 |
I have dedicated my avatar to the Album that broke my prog cherry!
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Kotro
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Location: Portugal
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Posted: May 16 2007 at 08:10 |
My father forced me when I was six. 
He made me listen to "ITCOTCK". I have never thanked him enough since.
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Bigger on the inside.
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dedalus
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Location: Iran
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Posted: May 16 2007 at 08:07 |
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ProgRobUK
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Location: United Kingdom
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Posted: May 16 2007 at 07:58 |
My first realisation that such music existed was Tubular Bells. I remember being on holiday at the time as a lad and everywhere we went it seemed that it was playing. I remember my mother hating it and wanting to get out of any shop where it was playing and me thinking "fabulous".
First realisation though was ELP "Bran Salad Surgery" and Hawkwind "Astounding Sounds" - then I wanted more...
Rob
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Snow Dog
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Posted: May 16 2007 at 07:49 |
Tubular Bells.....I think, or was it Dark Side Of The Moon?
Hard to remember now, but everyone bought those two at the time.
First serious prog was ELP, then Genesis.
Discovered Yes by myself later. Saw Relayer in record shop. Saw it only had three tracks, so I got it.
Edited by Snow Dog - May 16 2007 at 07:51
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chopper
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Posted: May 16 2007 at 07:46 |
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seamus
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Posted: May 16 2007 at 07:38 |
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